Job names

You can use the name of the job that created the data set to retain a data set. A job name consists of one to eight alphanumeric characters, or $, #, or @. If your installation uses ISO/ANSI standard label volumes, job name can only contain alphanumeric characters and must not contain national characters.

For example, to keep all data sets created by the job LAURAN, this vital record specification could be defined.

RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('**') JOBNAME(LAURAN)

DFSMSrmm uses the reserved job names of ABEND, DELETED, and OPEN. See Special ABEND, DELETED, and OPEN retention for more information about ABEND, DELETED, and OPEN. Use JOBNAME(ABEND*), JOBNAME( DELETED*), or JOBNAME(OPEN*) to match to actual jobnames of ABEND, DELETED, or OPEN.

The VRSJOBNAME parmlib option allows you to specify how job names are used in the data set matching process. See How DFSMSrmm uses jobname to apply policies for more information.